Chapter 30 – Page 34

Aaaaaand that, at long last, is the conclusion of Chapter 30! Our biggest chapter yet! We really try not to let them go on so long but we had a lot we wanted to see and do before we were out of there.

For next week, we’ll be taking a break from regular comics and will be bringing you one of the two short stories promised on the FRIGGSTARTER, accompanied by illustrations, in five installments. What’s it gonna be about? Well, you’ll just have to show up on Monday!

Let me just dart in here. This might be a shot in the dark, or a flight of fancy, and I hope none of yew think I am shafting you, but Ashtok is pulled taut and yearning for release: why would he bow to such pressure? Ahem: bull’s eye!

I feel like they should all get magical pets they can mutate into big nasty fightin’ monsters using some sort of electric doohickey. Y’know, make them change into digital champions to save the digital world and all that.

However, this does sound rather like what the Snarl was said to be. I’m guessing we’ve got three worlds here: Arkerra, Sepia World, and the Black Hole, and that the Black Hole is what H.R. has found resisting his efforts at control.

(For those who don’t know, it was the smarter but not quite as fun or pretty cousin to The Matrix, which came out the same year and had similar themes. I think overall it’s the better of the two movies.)

No, it’s a mystery/crime thriller. There was a horror movie called The 13th Floor, but that’s a decade older. (Then, of course, there’s Thirteen Ghosts from 2001, but we’re getting further from reasonable confusion, now.)

Never mind Sundar, how did Gravedust and E-Merl not see that thing the moment they walked in?? (You can’t tell me they did see it, no way they wouldn’t have investigated it and clued Sundar in before talking to ghosts.)

Comments from the past continue to surprise me. Especially considering I “remembered” what I know about the other world the portal was going to from one of these past commenters ages ago. Those people must have started ignoring the comment section by this point? Oh well, onward with my first reading. Gonna be rough when I hit the end after such a long stretch.

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